Railway-tie and rail-chair.



G. H. SHANE. RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL CHAIR.

I AP L o .v 1,067,762 P I ATION FILED NOV 1 1912 Patented July 15, 1913.

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GEORGE I-I. SHANE, 0F DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEEL RAILWAY TIE AND APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF DENVER, COLORADO, A CORPORATION OF COLO- RADO.

RAILWAY-TIE AND RAIL-CHAIR.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. SHANE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties and Rail-Chairs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to railway ties and rail chairs, and may be said to constitute improvements over Patent No. 894,072, issued to Robert E. Foresman and myself jointly, July 21, 1908.

One of the objects of my invention is to so build the rail chair that a tie of the or dinary commercial channel. iron construction may be used, thereby reducing the cost of manufacture.

Another object of the invention is to build the fish-plates for joining ends of rails integral with the chairs whereby an exceptionally strong joint is accomplished, and whereby it is assured that the joint between two rails will always rest upon a tie.

A third object is to provide means whereby the chairs will rest upon the bases of the ties as well as upon the flanges, thereby pro-- ducing even bearing across the tie and preventing the possible upward flexure of the base of the tie.

One embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan View of a section of track in which my invention is utilized. Fig. 2 1s a view partly in section taken upon the line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view partly in section taken upon the line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. l is a perspective detail view of one of my improved rail chairs. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of a combined rail chair and fish-plate. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the preferred form of tie.

The same reference characters refer to like parts in each of the views.

The ties preferably used in my invention are formed from channel bars of stock material, the bases of said bars in the drawing Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 1, 1912.

Patented J uly 15, 1913.

Serial No. 728,970.

being numbered 5, and the upwardly extending flanges or webs being numbered 0. N ar each extremity the upper edges of the flanges G are cut away, forming recesses 7. Rail chairs 8 have their lower surfaces rabbeted at 9 to form shoulders 10 (see Fig. 2) by means of which longitudinal movement of the chairs upon the ties, and consequent spreading of the rails is prevented.

The chairs 8 have formed thereon side flanges 11, the upper portions of which are adapted to constitute braces for the rails, and the lower portions of which are arranged to embrace the side flanges 6 of the ties. The flanges 11 have perforations 12 therein, which, when the chair is in position upon the tie, aline with perforations 13 in the tie. Depending centrally from the horizontal part of the rail chair is a web 1 1 which is of a proper depth to rest upon the base 5 of the tie when the chair is in place thereon, this web also having a perforation alining with the perforations 12 and 13. A bolt 15 is intended to be passed through these perforations to secure the chair in place upon the tie. The chair 8 is provided with a recess 16 extending entirely across its width for the reception of the base of a rail 17 while the upright surface 18 of the chair is set in sufliciently to compensate for half the thickness of the web of the rail 17.

Two chairs of the above described construction are used to fasten each rail to each tie except at the juncture of two rails, when I employ the device illustrated in Fig. 5 and shown applied to the middle tie in Fig. 1. The construction of this device as illustrated is identical with that of the chairs 8 except that the portion of the chair which bears upon the base and web of the rail has extensions 19 adapted to engage the web for a suitable distance on each side of the joint, perforations 20 being formed in the extensions 19 and in the rail chair proper for the reception of bolts 21 which pass through registering perforations made in the webs of the rails. The extensions 19 and the corresponding portion of the chair form a substitute for the ordinary fish-plate used at rail joints.

1 claim as my invention:

1. In combination, a channel-shaped railway tie and a rail chair adapted to extend across the flanges of said tie and to be fastened thereto, said chair having a downwardly extending rib adapted to rest upon the base of said tieand means for embracing the sides of said tie.

2. In combination, a channel-shaped railway tie, a rail chair having downwardly extending flanges adapted to embrace said tie means for securing together the chair and the tie and a downwardly extending rib mounted upon said chair intermediate said flanges and adapted to rest upon the base of the tie.

3. In combination, a channel shaped railway tie, a rail chair having two downwardly vextending flanges, each arranged to bear against a side of one of the flanges of the channel shaped tie, means for securing together the chair and the tie and a clownwardly extending rib mounted upon said chair intermediate said flanges and adapted to rest upon the base of the tie.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. SHANE. lVitnesses:

EVA L. HALL, MAY CLEMENTS.

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